Resistance-switching oxide films, and devices therewith, are disclosed. Resistance-switching oxide films, according to certain preferred aspects of the present invention, include at least about 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a conducting material dopant in an amount up to about 25 atomic percent. The matrix and dopant are preferably in solid solution. The insulator oxide matrix may also preferably include about 6 to about 12 atomic percent of a conducting material dopant. According to certain aspects of the present invention, the insulator oxide matrix, the conducting material dopant, or both, may have a perovskite crystal structure. The insulator oxide matrix may preferably include at least one of LaAlO3 and CaZrO3. Preferred conducting material dopants include SrRuO3, CaRuO3, or combinations thereof.
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1. A semiconductor composition comprising:
at least about 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a perovskite structure; and
up to about 25 atomic percent of a conducting oxide dopant having a perovskite structure, wherein said dopant is in solid solution with said insulator oxide matrix.
67. A semiconductor device comprising:
a first electrically conductive layer;
at least one semiconductor composition layer disposed on said first conductive layer, wherein said semiconductor layer comprises at least about 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a perovskite structure and up to about 25 atomic percent of a conducting oxide dopant having a perovskite structure; and
a second electrically conductive layer disposed on said semiconductor layer,
wherein said at least one dopant has a work function equivalent to at least one of said first conductive layer and second conductive layer.
24. A semiconductor device comprising:
a first electrically conductive layer;
at least one semiconductor composition layer disposed on said first conductive layer, wherein said semiconductor composition layer comprises a solid solution of at least two perovskite materials,
wherein said semiconductor composition layer comprises:
at least 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a perovskite structure; and
up to about 25 atomic percent of a conducting oxide dopant having a perovskite structure, wherein said dopant is in solid solution with said insulator material; and
a second electrically conductive layer disposed on said semiconductor layer.
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The invention generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to resistance-switching oxide semiconductor devices. The present invention also generally relates to resistance-switching oxide compositions and methods for making same.
Materials exhibiting reversible resistance switching are attractive for many of today's semiconductor devices, including non-volatile random-access memory devices. However, previous efforts in the art to reversibly vary electrical performance have exhibited numerous drawbacks. For example, some capacitance-switching semiconductor devices, such as doped Schottky-junction diodes, require relatively large amounts of electrical power (voltage) to switch to, and maintain, a particular capacitance state. Still further, such a device completely loses its capacitance state when the power is withdrawn. Current leakage, and associated heat-build up, are also especially problematic with these switchable semiconductor devices. Thus, high power consumption, current leakage and poor retention characteristics make these devices unsuitable for many practical applications.
Other efforts in the art have taught that several different resistance-switching technologies can be triggered by voltage. This phenomenon has sometimes been called an EPIR (Electrical Pulse Induced Resistance) switching effect. EPIR semiconductor devices are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,886,577 (Buckley). In the Buckley devices, a sufficiently high voltage (50 V) is applied to a semiconductor thin film in which an approximately 10 micron portion, or filament, of the film may be set to a low resistivity state. Filament size is highly dependant on the amount of current flowing through the device. The device may then be reset to a high resistance state by the action of a second high current pulse (150 mA). However, the set voltage is strongly affected by the number of switching cycles performed. Thus, these devices generally exhibit high power consumption and poor cycle fatigue performance.
Recent efforts in the art have investigated ferroelectric and magnetoresistive materials for non-volatile memory applications. These materials, however, suffer from cycle fatigue and retention problems. Moreover, many magnetoresistive oxide devices require magnetic switching fields and have low operating temperatures.
Some thin film materials in the perovskite family, especially in colossal magnetoresistive (CMR) thin films, have exhibited reversible resistance changes upon application of an electrical stimuli in a magnetic field. It has been recently found that some transition metal oxides in the perovskite family exhibit resistance-switching under a voltage trigger in the absence of a magnetic field. Indeed, the recent observation of the electrical pulse induced resistance (EPIR) change effect in perovskite oxide thin films at room temperature and in the absence of a magnetic field has drawn much attention. See, e.g., “Electric-Pulse Induced Reversible Resistance Change Effect in Magnetoresistive Films,” S. Q. Liu, N. J. Wu, A. Ignatiev, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 76, No. 23 (2000). In these previous efforts, a Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (PCMO) oxide film placed between two electrodes served as an EPIR device. The resistance states of such simple structured semiconductor devices were switchable by the application of a voltage trigger. The trigger could directly increase or decrease the resistance of the thin film sample depending on voltage polarity. Such voltage triggering phenomenon can be useful in a variety of device applications, including non-volatile memory devices such as resistance random access memory (RRAM) devices.
These early devices, however, required relatively high voltage triggers and the EPIR effect was found to be cycle dependant. The EPIR effect, measured as the ratio between the resistance states, was found to decrease as the number of triggering events increased. Thus, the high power requirements and lack of resistance state stability plagued these early EPIR compositions and devices. Although, the basic mechanism responsible for the EPIR effect is still under investigation, there exist a need in the art to develop improved resistance-switching semiconductor devices for potential application in different technology areas.
Thus, there is a need in the art for resistance-switching semiconductor devices having low power consumption. Still further, there is a need in the art for such semiconductor devices having low voltage leakage and high retention of the respective low and high resistance states. There is also a need in the art for resistance-switching semiconductor devices having improved cycle fatigue performance.
Resistance-switching oxide films, according to the certain preferred aspects of the present invention, include at least about 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a conducting material dopant in an amount up to about 25 atomic percent. The matrix and dopant are preferably in solid solution. The insulator oxide matrix may thus preferably include about 5 to about 17 atomic percent of a conducting material dopant. Most preferably, the insulator oxide matrix may include about 6 to about 12 atomic percent of a conducting material dopant. The insulator oxide matrix may include MgO, while the dopant may include Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, TiO, VO, MnO, FeO, CoO, NiO, CuO, or combinations thereof.
More preferably, at least one of the insulator oxide matrix and the conducting material matrix may have a perovskite crystal structure. As used herein, perovskite crystal structures may also include perovskite-like crystal structures. In this regard, the preferred insulator oxide matrix may include LaAlO3, CaZrO3, SrZrO3, BaZrO3, CaHfO3, SrHfO3, BaHfO3, LaScO3, GdScO3, DyScO3, or combinations thereof. Preferred conducting material dopants include SrRuO3, CaRuO3, BaRuO3, SrMoO3, CaMoO3, BaMoO3, SrIrO3, CaIrO3, BaIrO3, SrVO3, CaVO3, SrNbO3, CaNbO3, SrCrO3, SrFeO3, CaFeO3, LaTiO3, LaNiO3, LaCuO3, LaRhO3, (La,Sr)TiO3, (La,Sr)FeO3, (La,Sr)MnO3, or combinations thereof.
Certain presently preferred embodiments of the present invention include semiconductor devices having at least one resistance-switching oxide film as described herein. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the device may include a substrate, a first electrically conductive layer disposed on the substrate, at least one resistance-switching oxide film, as described herein, disposed on the first conductive layer, and a second electrically conductive layer disposed on the oxide film. According to certain preferred aspects of the present invention, the first electrically conductive layer may serve as the device substrate. The first electrically conductive layer and resistance-switching oxide layer may also be deposited to maintain epitaxial registry with a single crystal semiconductor substrate. In accordance with still other embodiments of the present invention, the semiconductor device may include at least one resistance-switching oxide film wherein the dopant has a work function equivalent to that of the first electrically conductive layer, the second electrically conductive layer, or both.
Various aspects of the present invention will become more apparent in reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
The present invention relates to two-point resistance-switching oxide layers, semiconductor devices incorporating same, and methods for making such oxide layers and devices. Resistance-switching oxide layers, and devices incorporating same, are suitable for various non-volatile memory applications. Under a resistance-switching regime, when an appropriate voltage pulse is applied, the resistance of the oxide layer can be increased and remain so until application of another appropriate voltage pulse, typically of the opposite polarity, which returns the resistance to the low value. Devices incorporating such resistance-switching oxide layers should be switchable at a modest voltage, preferably below about 3 V.
Resistance-switching oxide films, according to the certain preferred aspects of the present invention, include at least about 75 atomic percent of an insulator oxide matrix having a conducting material dopant in an amount up to about 25 atomic percent. The matrix (solvent) and dopant (solute) are preferably in solid solution, without appreciable precipitate formation or phase separation. The insulator oxide matrix may preferably include about 5 to about 17 atomic percent of a conducting material dopant. Most preferably, the insulator oxide matrix may include about 6 to about 12 atomic percent of a conducting material dopant. The insulator oxide matrix may include MgO. The insulator oxide may also include at least one binary oxide, including but not limited to:
Dopants may include various metals and/or their respective oxides such as Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, TiO, VO, MnO, FeO, CoO, NiO, CuO, or combinations thereof. Dopants may also include Pt, Pd, Au, Ag, Ir, Rh, Os, Ru, Re, W, Mo, Ta, Nb, Hf, Zr, Al, or combinations thereof. Dopants may further include Vo2, CrO2, NbO2, MoO2, RuO2, RhO2, WO2, OsO2, IrO2, PtO2, or combinations thereof.
More preferably, at least one of the insulator oxide matrix and the conducting material matrix may have a perovskite, or perovskite-like, crystal structure. In this regard, the preferred insulator oxide matrix may include CaZrO3, SrZrO3, BaZrO3, or combinations thereof. The insulator oxide matrix may also include at least one of:
Preferred conducting oxide dopants include perovskite structures including, but not limited to, SrRuO3, CaRuO3, BaRuO3, SrMoO3, CaMoO3, BaMoO3, SrIrO3, CaIrO3, BaIrO3, SrVO3, CaVO3, SrNbO3, CaNbO3, SrCrO3, SrFeO3, CaFeO3, LaTiO3, LaNiO3 LaCuO3, LaRhO3, (La,Sr)TiO3, (La,Sr)MnO3, (La,Sr)FeO3, or combinations thereof. Dopants may also include at least one of:
Certain presently preferred embodiments of the present invention also include semiconductor devices having at least one resistance-switching oxide layer as described herein. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the device may include a substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on the substrate, at least one resistance-switching oxide layer as described herein, and a second electrically conductive layer disposed on the oxide layer. The first and second electrically conductive layers may respectively serve as bottom and top electrodes. In this regard, at least one of the electrodes may also comprise Pt, Pd, Ni, Au, Ag, Cu, Ir, Rh, Co, Os, Ru, Fe, Re, Mn, W, Mo, Cr, Ta, Nb, V, Hf, Zr, Ti, Al, doped Si, metal silicides, or combinations thereof. Electrodes may also comprise CrO2, MoO2, RuO2, RhO2, WO2, OsO2, IrO2, PtO2, or combinations thereof. In certain preferred embodiments, the first electrically conductive layer may also serve as the device substrate. In still other preferred embodiments, the semiconductor device may include at least one resistance-switching oxide film wherein the dopant has a work function equivalent to that of the first electrically conductive layer, the second electrically conductive layer, or both. Persons skilled in the art understand the concept of work function, and further reference may be made to CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 83rd ed., Lide, D.R (ed.), p. 12-130, CRC Press (2002), hereby incorporated by reference. As used herein, a work function may be considered equivalent if it is within about 25% of at least one target comparative work function value.
The various layers may be deposited by any number of sputtering and/or deposition techniques including, but not limited to, direct-current (DC) sputtering, radio-frequency (RF) sputtering, pulsed laser deposition (PLD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), atomic layer deposition (ALD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and ion-assisted deposition (IAD). The electrically conductive layer may be preferably deposited using a shadow mask technique in conjunction with RF sputtering. In accordance with certain preferred aspects of the present invention, the first electrically conductive layer and resistance-switching oxide layer may be deposited to maintain epitaxial registry, i.e., lattice matching, with a single crystal substrate. As seen in
At least one isolation layer may be included to alter the low voltage performance of the semiconductor device.
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In accordance with the present invention, the low or high resistance state persists as the magnitude of the voltage continues to increase in the same bias. The resistance state then switches when an appropriately large voltage is applied having an opposite bias. In this regard, a LAO:SRO oxide layer switches to a low resistance state, evidenced as high current on the I-V plot, as the reverse voltage reaches a large negative magnitude. Accordingly, a CZO:SRO oxide layer also switches to a low resistance state when the reverse voltage reaches a large negative magnitude. It is noted that the I-V and R-V response curves are similar among the various insulator matrix compositions and dopant concentrations, thus each showing some degree of current hysteresis and preferred resistance response. Still further, the hysteresis response is largely independent of starting voltage bias. Each insulator:dopant system will thus exhibit the same respective I-V and R-V response regardless of whether the initial voltage bias is positive or negative. Aspects of the current invention include compositional and deposition variations which result in devices having relatively low initial resistance wherein switching-to-high-resistance occurs at negative voltage of appropriate magnitude and switching-to-low-resistance occurs at a positive voltage of appropriate magnitude. And again, these devices would also have the same respective I-V and R-V responses whether the initial voltage is positive or negative.
Devices according to certain preferred aspects of the present invention may be particularly suited for random access memory (RAM) applications. For example, simple two-point resistance devices may be produced to read and write binary information. Thus, a first pulse would set the device to a first resistance state, i.e., a “0” state. The application of a second pulse, of opposite polarity would set the device to a second resistance state, i.e., a “1” state. In this manner, information can be “written” to the device upon the application of a voltage having the appropriate magnitude and polarity. The device may be “read” by applying a voltage pulse of lesser magnitude than the write pulse.
If one or more isolation layers are present, then an initial non-zero voltage is needed to transfer current across the isolation and resistance-switching layers, hence a higher resistance would be expected at the zero-voltage state. The inclusion of an isolation layer may thus alter the zero-voltage resistance value, but is not expected to change the overall “shape” of the R-V response curve. Such a device, may also have improved leakage characteristics (i.e., reduced leakage) and may have further improved retention of the read:write states.
Perovskite material systems have traditionally been used for capacitors, dielectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectric, and other related applications. In such applications, it is advantageous to have very low conductivity, i.e., very high resistivity, to minimize dielectric loss and/or leakage of stored charge. Perovskite compositions for such applications generally avoid conducting dopants. In those circumstances where dopants are used, a relatively small amount (typically less than about 2 atomic percent) is used to compensate for valence mismatch in the insulator matrix, for example a small amount of Nb5+ can be used to compensate for the small amount of Ti3+ in BaTiO3. Perovskite material systems may also be used for conductors, electrodes, and other related applications. In these applications, however, very high conductivity, i.e., very low resistivity, is desired to minimize ohmic loss and power consumption. Therefore, the preferred compositions generally include a very high amount of conducting components (typically greater than about 70 atomic percent). Prior efforts in the art have thus taught either very highly-doped or minimally-doped perovskite materials systems for various technological applications. Here, the inventors have surprisingly found a significant and reproducible resistance-switching phenomenon upon mid-range doping of some perovskite material systems.
In regard to a presently preferred embodiment, and without being limited by theory, it is believed that Ru ions (conducting dopant) in the LaAlO3:SrRuO3 resistance-switching layer form isolated Ru conductive states separated by LaAlO3 insulating barriers. Although these electron states are initially empty, under an external bias, electrons may tunnel across a series of LaAlO3 (insulating matrix) barriers between these empty states to deliver a tunneling current at low resistance.
The insulator oxide matrix of the resistance-switching layer should be a good insulator, having high breakdown field, and low conductivity in the desired temperature range of application. Still further, insulator oxide compositions in which cations may exist in more than one valence state, i.e., mixed valence compositions, should be avoided. These features prevent premature breakdown, and the formation of conducting paths due to “forming” or filamentary procedure wherein the application of a large voltage resulting in certain isolated preferred conducting paths in an initially highly electrically resistive material. See J. G. Simmons and RR Verdeber, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 301, 77 (1968). Here, preferred conducting oxide dopants typically contain cations that exist in more than one valence state. More generally, according to the present invention, dopant content is usually at a low enough concentration such that electron tunneling is the preferred conduction mechanism. At relatively high concentrations, however, “forming” or other conduction mechanisms may predominate. This tunneling threshold concentration may vary due to several factors including, but not limited to, layer thickness and spatial distribution of the conducting dopant. Thus, for example, the threshold concentration for thick films may be greater than that for relatively thin films.
In this manner, tunneling electrons in a insulator matrix:conducting dopant system may effect beneficial resistance-switching characteristics. Certain embodiments of the present invention are particularly advantageous in that high voltage “forming” or filamentary conduction is avoided and resistance-switching may occur at relatively low voltages, typically about 2 V (or about −2 V). Thus, these devices have modest power consumption and would be particularly suited for micro-sized, or nano-sized, semiconductor devices. Low/high resistance states of certain preferred oxide layers, and devices therewith, are remarkably stable while further exhibiting excellent retention and cycle fatigue characteristics.
Certain aspects of the present invention having been disclosed in connection with the foregoing variations and examples, additional variations will now be apparent to persons skilled in the art. The invention is not intended to be limited to the variations and examples specifically mentioned or presently preferred, and accordingly reference should be made to the appended claims to assess the spirit and scope of the invention in which exclusive rights are claimed.
Chen, I-Wei, Kim, Soo Gil, Wang, Yudi
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